Seattle Makes GQ's List of the Top 40 Worst-Dressed Cities

Mark Byrne, a GQ contributor, called out Seattle for its abundance of plaid.

Flannel is comfy.

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But for the fashion police at GQ, apparently Seattle's plaid-clad populace (including half of Seattle Weekly's newsroom) is out of touch, earning the city a spot on the magazine's list of the top 40 worst-dressed cities.

The Jet City earned spot #34 on the list, narrowly beating Bruce Springsteen's hometown, Asbury Park, N.J., which clocked in at #33.

"When your city's whole identity is wrapped up in a few years of noisy, adolescent anger, you'd do well to let some of it die off with time, instead of pushing it onward, decade by decade, in a rainy haze of anti-fashion nostalgia," the magazine says.